TEA DRINKING.
X/XbJLll XVXXI VJ TO THE EDITOR.
Sir,—l was greatly amused and rather astonished, in reading the statement of Mr. O'Conor (on the no-confidence debate) to the effect that the tea used by the working classes was a mere bagatelle ! Now, sir, I should like to know Mr. O'Conor's ideas on the beverages of the working classes. Does he think we take a bottle of Moet for break* fast, Bass's pale ale for dinner, and wind up with punch for supper, or what Perhaps he thinks we a\l keep a whisky mill going in the kitchen, or dip our heads in a bucket of water every time we feel in want of liquid sustenance. lam afraid, sir, Mr. O'Connor knows very little about the working classes. Why, sir, tea is almost our exclusive drink, morning, noon, and night. Let him think of the thousands of bushmen, gumdiggers, miners, labourers, etc., who, as a rule, drink nothing but tea with their daily meals. If he founds his ideas on the working man, when on a trip to town, I am afraid long sleevers would be in the ascendant, but up in the country it is the billy.—l am, Ac., A Working Man.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7404, 12 August 1885, Page 3
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